Mardi Gras is coming early in 2026, with a few parades rolling as early as January. Mardi Gras Day or Fat Tuesday is Feb. 17. Ironically, or not, the date for the Bacchanalian celebration of Mardi ...

This year, many in Congress have been working on bills to reform the Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) protocols for food ingredients. In the past week, this included Sen. Roger Marshall’s Better ...

Beginning in 2026, Lafayette's Mardi Gras parades will return to their original downtown route for the first time in decades. The new route will start at Surrey and Simcoe Streets, travel through ...

Foie gras, which is made by force-feeding ducks and geese, was seen on the shelves of Wild Fork Foods stores in Venice, Manhattan Beach and Westlake Village this week despite a state ban. Wild Fork ...

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The French delicacy foie gras could be made more ethically thanks to a technique that replicates the way fats are metabolised in force-fed birds, although the process still depends on farmed animals.

While not sparing the lives of ducks and geese, the technique lets the birds eat and grow normally. By Ari Daniel Thomas Vilgis, a food physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in ...

Researchers wondered if there was a more ethical way to enjoy foie gras, so they created a process to replicate the dish without force-feeding ducks and geese beyond their normal diets. They treated ...

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday his intention to eliminate the Generally Recognized As Safe standards for most domestic products. “We’ve launched a review ...

With Mardi Gras concluding for the year, the Mobile Police Department released totals for the festival season. According to the department’s figures, approximately 1,367,141 people attended parades ...